Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-10-24
General News Items.

fire at Hankow, China, destroyed
l 1000 lives. Property loss immense.
Cape Cod bay is full of mackerel and
hundreds of schooners are after them.
p T. Barnum, the veteran Snowman, is
planning long trip through Central and
South Africa.
Advices from the Cherokee Nation in
dictate that bloodshed will attend the cleo
ton of chief.
Edison's photograph is to do away
with type-writers and stenographic
secretaries, he says.
The Laconia Car Co has taken 500,
600 order for freight and passenger-cars
from the Boston & Maine railroad.
In railroad accident at Warren, Ohio,
two engines and dozen cars were demol-
ished and two men were badly hurt.
1t is stated that Secretary Lamar has
been rendered the supreme court bench
vacancy and has accepted the same.
Az -..p1voo sale on the Iron Mn,,mUorn
railroad was recently robbed of 100000.
Messenger John B. Owens has confessed.
S. w. Rawson, a rich banker of Chica-
90, was shot Sunday in church doorway
by his step-son to avenge the SANDER of
mother.
Perry Davis, of pain-killer fame, and a
party of Americans are under arrest in
the western part of Nova Scotia for hunt
ing moose illegally.
The returns are not yet complete from
the prohibition election in Tennessee, but
the latest figures show an anti-prohibition
majority of over % 600
Robbers attempted to rob an express
car near FL Paso, Texas, on Friday, but
two of them were shot and killed by j.
E. Smith, the express messenger.
r. P Hicks. a cashier of the Stafford
National Bank of Stafford Springs, Conn,
has been arrested on the charge of embez-
zling over $50, 900 of the banks money
1t is thought the bank is ruined.
The Methodists of Nebraska have elect
ed Mrs. Angie +. Newman a delegate to
their national conference. She is we'll
known in the West for her hostility to
the Mormon church, and is the first wo-
man to be rewarded with such "A position.
James Gordon Bennett has returned
from Europe and a grand shake-up in his
newspaper offices has taken place. He
has secured Cockerill of the World as
managing editor of the Herald and has
relieved the two leading editors of the
Evening Telegram.
Gen. Black, who draws a $1,000 annual
pension, and as commissioner of pensions
draws $4,000 annual salary, attended a re-
union of veterans in New Hampshire a
few weeks ago, where he posed" as the
soldiers friend" 1t is ascertained that
he charged the veterans S25 for his visit,
which sum was collected and paid to him.
Five lives have been sacrificed in the
latest Kentucky feud on Yellow Greek,
Bell county, between the families of Lee
Turner and Gen. Sowders, who are broth
ers-in-law. Sowders shot and killed
Turner, escaped, and is now at large.
Harvey Turner then shot and killed Jim
Rains, friend of Sowders. While the
sherif7s posse was after Harvey Turner
they met Jack Turner and some of his
friends, and in the fight George Thomas,
a marshal, was killed. Jack Turner was
shot by Marsh Turner, some days after
ward, and Howard Moore, of the Turner
faction, has since been killed by unknown
parties
One of the most disastrous storms ever
known on the southern coast of Mexico
occurred on the It'll and Sth inst. The
city of Quelito. town of more than 5000
people, was totally destroyed and many
lives lost kilograms give accounts of
most affecting scenes, many women, chill
dren and men fiouudering in the stormy
current and crying for help, which was
not at hand. No particulars are obtaina-
bic as the wires are down. Dispatches
state that the superstition is that numbers
of wrecks occurred in the Gulf but the
facts cannot be ascertained Later dis
patches to the Associated Press report
the entire coffee and orange crop in Sino-
Dr. Holub, the Austrian traveller, has
just returned to Europe after three years
exploration in South Africa. Although
his expedition was once broken up and
plundered by the natives he brings home
an extensive and valuable collection which
fills Al cases. In it there are 6n2 skins
OF quadrupeds ready for stufiing of which
20 are of animals az large as the kOOdoo-
an antelope heavier than the red deer; Of
birds, there are 22ll specimens; OF In
sects q 900. including q 900 beetles and
5000 moths and butterflies. There are
ESQ $500 specimens of plants. There are
], 600 recorded observations in N teorolo-
gy, and more than that number Of the
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